Start-ups and Turn-Arounds

Rassen and Associates, through tailored consultation services, enhances the capacity of nonprofit organizations to meet the demands of today and to prepare for tomorrow.

Your organization’s challenges are complex. While your mission may not change, how you go about achieving your goals might need to. Rassen and Associates collaborates with you to find new ways to operate, plan for the future, manage change, build your organization’s leadership and achieve mission impact. Small or large, we customize our services to fit your needs so that you can achieve your goals.

Start-ups and Turn-arounds

Looking to start a nonprofit but unsure of where to begin?

Fear that your organization may be on the brink of closure?

Searching for someone to ease the transition after the departure of your Executive Director?

Experienced in starting-up local and national organizations and turning-around some on the brink of closure, we work collaboratively with stakeholders to shore up the present and plan for the future, bringing a blend of business acumen and knowledge of best practices.

Start-ups: start-ups will walk away with a detailed launch strategy that includes organizational design plans and support with achieving 501c3 status.

Turnarounds: upon conducting a full assessment of the organization’s viability, Rassen and Associates will deliver a comprehensive revitalization strategy or in rare cases, recommendations for merger or closure.

Transitions: organizations experiencing a transition in leadership will receive hands-on support in identifying a new Executive Director. Upon request from the Board of Directors, Rassen and Associates will act as the interim executive director until the right person is identified.

Troubleshooting: from issues with personnel to funding to general operations, Rassen and Associates will deliver concrete strategies for addressing persistent problems and support with creating and implementing a plan of action.

“After our start-up non-profit experienced some growing pains, Amy masterfully brought together the non-profit’s Board and administrators, and helped not only to give us the tools we needed to come together and make important decisions for how to structure the organization more effectively, but she also helped us understand our collective and individual duties, and what next steps we needed to take in order to fulfill and implement the organization’s mission and goals. For the sake of the long-term survival of our organization, it was imperative to have an objective, experienced outsider, who quickly helped us “reset” and get us on the right path again, and we couldn’t have done that without Amy.” ~ Linda Janourova-Tang, Former Chair, Board of Directors, Czech School of California